IP Library Granted Patent US 9,594,235
Granted Patent B2
US 9,594,235 · App. 14/562,823 · Granted Mar 14, 2017

Zoom lens system

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Patent No.
US 9,594,235
App. No.
14/562,823
Granted
Mar 14, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided is a zoom lens system, sequentially arranged in an order from an object side to an image side, including: a first lens group having a positive refractive power; a second lens group having a negative refractive power; an aperture stop; a third lens group having a positive refractive power; a fourth lens group having a positive refractive power; and a fifth lens group having a positive refractive power, wherein each of the second lens group, the third lens group, and the fourth lens group has an anomalous dispersion ΔPct of −0.1 or less.

Claims (31)

1. A zoom lens system, arranged in an order from an object side to an image side, comprising:

a first lens group having a positive refractive power and comprising:

a first lens;

a second lens;

a third lens; and

a fourth lens, the first, second, third and fourth lenses arranged in an order from an object side to an image side with no intervening lens or lens group;

a second lens group having a negative refractive power;

an aperture stop;

a third lens group having a positive refractive power;

a fourth lens group having a positive refractive power; and

a fifth lens group having a positive refractive power,

wherein an Abbe number of each of the second lens, the third lens, and the fourth lens of the first lens group is greater than or equal to an Abbe number of each of the lenses included in the second, third, fourth and fifth lens groups,

wherein the second lens group comprises:

a fifth lens;

a sixth lens; and

a seventh lens,

wherein the third lens group comprises:

an eighth lens;

a ninth lens; and

a tenth lens, the eighth, ninth, and tenth lenses arranged in an order from the object side to the image side with no intervening lens or lens group; wherein the Abbe number of each of the second lens, the third lens, and the fourth lens of the first lens group is equal to one another; wherein the eighth lens is the most object side lens of the third lens group;

wherein an Abbe number of the eighth lens is equal to the Abbe number of each of the second lens, the third lens, and the fourth lens of the first lens group.

2. The zoom lens system of claim 1 , wherein the zoom lens system is configured to vary a magnification setting between a wide angle position and a telephoto position by changing a distance between the first lens group and the second lens group.

3. The zoom lens system of claim 2 , wherein the zoom lens system is configured to vary the magnification setting of the zoom lens system from a wide angle position to a telephoto position by increasing a distance between the first lens group and the second lens group.

4. The zoom lens system of claim 1 , wherein positions of the first lens group and the fifth lens group are fixed along an optical axis.

5. The zoom lens system of claim 1 , wherein in response to a magnification setting of the zoom lens system being varied from a wide angle position to a telephoto position, a distance between the aperture stop and the third lens group is configured to be decreased and fixed at a preset value after being decreased.

6. The zoom lens system of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the second lens group, the third lens group, and the fourth lens group comprises a lens having an aspheric surface.

7. The zoom lens system of claim 1 , wherein each of the second lens group, the third lens group, and the fourth lens group comprises a lens having an aspheric surface.

8. An image capturing system comprising:

an imaging device configured to capture an image; and

the zoom lens system of claim 1 .

9. The zoom lens system of claim 1 , wherein the Abbe number of each of the second lens, the third lens, and the fourth lens of the first lens group is greater than two times an Abbe number of the first lens of the first lens group.

Assignments (6)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Aug 10, 2023
From: HANWHA TECHWIN CO., LTD.
To: HANWHA VISION CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 064549/0075 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 26, 2019
From: HANWHA AEROSPACE CO., LTD.
To: HANWHA TECHWIN CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 049013/0723 →
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE APPLICATION NUMBER 10/853,669. IN ADDITION PLEASE SEE EXHIBIT A PREVIOUSLY RECORDED ON REEL 046927 FRAME 0019. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE CHANGE OF NAME. Recorded Jan 17, 2019
From: HANWHA TECHWIN CO., LTD.
To: HANWHA AEROSPACE CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 048496/0596 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Aug 24, 2018
From: HANWHA TECHWIN CO., LTD
To: HANWHA AEROSPACE CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 046927/0019 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jul 30, 2015
From: SAMSUNG TECHWIN CO., LTD.
To: HANWHA TECHWIN CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 036233/0327 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 8, 2014
From: ABE, YASUHIKO
To: SAMSUNG TECHWIN CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 034537/0285 →